Yafeng Shan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His recent books include Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-Making and Mechanism (OUP, 2024), Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2023), Examining Philosophy Itself (Wiley, 2023), and Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020).